Vegetable ivory, or, Specimen nuts of the ivory plant

Title Variants

Alternative: Specimen nuts of the ivory plant

Alternative: Vegetable ivory

By

Taylor, Benjamin, , illustrator

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

[United States?], [publisher not identified], [approximately 1855]

Notes

Caption title.

Lithographed vignette of a landscape scene, "Designed by B. Taylor," with caption: Natives gathering corozo nut.

Text within ornamental border.

Broadside promotion for "ivory" made from palm nuts. "The Indians cover their cottages with the largest leaves, and the English manufacture all kinds of fancy articles of the nut. The ornaments made from this substance exhibited in the Exhibition, 1851, Class XXVIII, which consisted of a variety of objects turned with great skill ... [The Great Exhibition, or Crystal Palace Exhibition, of 1851].

Subjects

Broadsides , Ivory nut palm , Ivory nuts , Phytelephas , South America , Specimens

Call Number

SB299.P5 V44 1855

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.153479
OCLC: 1017096746